Same jackpot amount won in the same state on two consecutive Tuesdays
By Kate Northrop
In just one week, two Mega Millions lottery jackpots both valued at $31 million were won in Massachusetts.
There's something in the water in Massachusetts, where a lottery player won a $31 million Mega Millions jackpot just one week after another player in the state won a jackpot of the same value.
On Tuesday, Jan. 24, one ticket won the $31 million jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions game with the winning numbers 33, 41, 47, 50, 62, and Mega Ball 20. On the following Tuesday, Jan. 31, yet another Massachusetts player was the only ticketholder in the country to do the same. The winning numbers for that drawing were 7, 9, 18, 29, and 39, with Mega Ball 13.
Both winning tickets were Quick Picks, sold at stores about an hour and a half apart from each other.
For last Tuesday's draw, a Stop & Shop grocery store on Hannum Street in Belchertown sold the jackpot-winning ticket. The winner of this Tuesday's drawing bought their lucky ticket at Gibbs on Winn Street in Woburn, a gas station about 20 minutes outside of Boston.
Gibbs and Stop & Shop each received a $50,000 bonus for selling their respective winning tickets.
According to the Massachusetts Lottery, these two $31 million jackpots are the largest prizes won in Massachusetts since the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot was hit in August 2017. The winner of that jackpot bought their lucky ticket at the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, which was featured in Lottery Post's video about the (then)-largest jackpots in history.
This is also the fifth time a Mega Millions jackpot was won in Massachusetts since 2002, when the game expanded and had its name changed from The Big Game to Mega Millions. Of those five wins within the past two decades, two of those wins astonishingly occurred just one week apart.
"This has been an incredibly exciting week for us in Massachusetts," the Lottery's Interim Executive Director Mark William Bracken told Lottery Post. "While we've had our share of big winners over the years, we've never seen two jackpot wins so close together. It shows that anything can happen — you never know when your lucky day may arrive."
The last time someone in Massachusetts won a Mega Millions jackpot was over a decade ago in October 2012, when a ticket sold at the AM/PM Convenience store in Hyannis split a $61 million jackpot with another ticket sold in California.
The two Mega Millions winners from this week have one year from the draw date to claim their $31 million jackpots, which must be claimed at Massachusetts Lottery headquarters in Dorchester.
RIGGED SAME STATE SAME STORE TOO SAME AMOUNT TOO 31 MILLION! BS
And same person. I wanna know how da hell he/she pulled this off.
Where do you see it says the same store???
I think you need to reread the story. But this time, do it very slowly and repeat 3 times. Then come back and delete your misinformed comment.
Both winning tickets were Quick Picks, sold at stores about an hour and a half apart from each other.
My mistake on same person, but the same amounts due to the jackpot had rolled from the previous draw, which happens if there wasn't a winner.
Well, according to the article, there were two different winners.
You need to re-read the article again carefully. Nowhere in the article did it say both quick pick Mega Millions tickets were purchased at the same store. One ticket was purchased at the Stop & Shop grocery store. The other ticket was purchased at Gibbs grocery store. These two stores are an hour and a half away from each other. Look somewhere else because there is NO conspiracy as you are suggesting.
The winners have not come forward to claim it. It could be the same person but I doubt it. What a story that would be!
Lightning indeed can strike the same place twice
And there are some states like New Hampshire which don't even win the second prize.
Good luck with that. But too funny about the same state with the winnings.
You are an incredibly ignorant and downright dangerous person. This level of delusion and quite frankly lies are a symptom of a much larger issue. In any case, both tickets were quick picks sold an hour and a half from each other. Additionally, Massachusetts is one of the biggest states with numbers of players. It makes sense it wins a lot more on average considering a lot more people play. Your confidence while spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories as baffling as is it's not surprising. Unreal.
The education system clearly has failed as it is evident with this comment on here. Did you even read the article?
YA BARRED!
ok good reporting,next what time of day was ticket purchased?
You also are BARRED!
i get one quick pick on every jackpot and 4 of my number sets of 5,i hardly get one number now! also i wonder if they chose the multiplier?
I just tried to dream up a story about an MITer obtaining a lotto ticket printer and modifying the machine to print up a ticket with his numbers, but showing a QP, thereby masking how his/her numbers were picked. The MITer is working with an insider to rig the pick at HQ. The ball picking machine is rigged with magnets turned on at moment of draw. The MITer defeats the "security through obscurity" methods used at Mega Millions HQ.
Anybody seen Jerry and Marge in Massachusetts lately?
Mega-millions jackpots odds are 1 in 302 million. I've noticed several jackpot and secondary million dollar prizes hovering around the NorthEast: Maine, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey. The two back to back wins should certainly raise eyebrows.
If both Drawings were Won by the same individual:
They could Live in Belchertown Ma and Work in Woburn Ma or
they could Work in Belchertown Ma and Live in Woburn Ma!
* That's because New Hampshire doesn't have enough lottery players.
I'm still shocked , that four winners in New England ,that fast.
They know who really won?
Who cares if it was a quick pick or not!
no one is ever gonna know who hit.
Also near Maine where the billion dollar ticket was sold. We need more audits taking place.
🤪 Who would have thought, the northeast (one of the largest population in the world) has a higher chance of winning, than a state in the middle of nowhere with an overall population that is equivalent to a medium size city in the northeast. I thought this website was for people who understood basic statistics and how lottery is conducted, not leftover trolls from the intellectual sewage of our country.
Everyone has a right to be curious if it was a quickpick or not. A common question in LP and of interest now with the more frequent wins and the clustering of win locations .
I hate qps but bought one ticket and actually like my numbers.
* Never could understand the fascination with " was it a qp or self pick?" No one knows which numbers are going to be drawn, not even a machine. In chess, an engine can probably foresee the final outcome of the game after so many moves, but even it can be wrong at times. Just pick your numbers or loses and hope for the best.
You were probably one of those kids who never asked why the sky is blue. Lack of curiosity about the world is not a virtue...